Maksim Gorkiy - Commemoration of Jewish Victims

After the war the bodies of the murdered Jews were exhumed from the well near Krasnoye in the course of the work of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission and were reburied in the well after the Commission completed its work. The well was used by inhabitants of the surrounding villages as a burial place for animals, then it was covered with earth so that only a hole in the ground remained. Some of the bones of those murdered were washed away by underground streams. Today only a board or plate placed over the well to prevent agricultural machines from falling into it indicates the place. There were proposals to erect a monument at this site but as yet there is no monument to commemorate the murdered Jews of Maxim Gorki kolkhoz and of other localities whose bodies are buried at this site.